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B.C. backcountry enthusiasts have long made claims that this province attracts 95 per cent of the world's heli-skiing. Whether that's true or not, Whistler Heli-Skiing certainly is ground zero for such hardcore athlete adventures.
This season, Whistler Heli-skiing celebrates 32 years of service on 432,000 backcountry acres.
The popularity can be attributed to its glacial climate, vast wilderness and abundance of powder snow.
After 32 years, they're seeing a surge in popularity. This year, some "powder pigs," as they call themselves, are encouraging newcomers to the sport once seen as the exclusive enclave of wealthy hardcore athletes.
Among them: Matt Mosteller. In his Calgary Herald article Heli-Skiing for Dummies, author and ski bum Mosteller asserts that the experience of heli-skiing is akin to winter ecstasy. He describes the feeling of soft fresh powder beneath your feet as "ilike floating through white gold."
Mosteller gives some good advice for intermediate skiers or boarders who want to head for the very top of the hills. Among them:
• Even if you're not a beginner, brush up on your skiing skills. "Get yourself to an intermediate level of ability or better before you go, so you can make the most of the powder experience," he writes.
• Confidence, grasshopper. Don't worry about the flight up there. Only the best pilots work in the heli-skiing industry, and they have thousands of hours flying in adverse weather conditions and in rugged terrain.
• Heli-skiing is not cheap, but it doesn't have to break the bank. There are more affordable heli-skiing options; just keep researching.
For more on heli-skiing in Whistler, go here.
Read the entire Calgary Herald article.


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ROCHESTER — In just over a week, police made four arrests pertaining to shoplifting in the city.
The suspects are now facing misdemeanor-level willful concealment charges, alleging they concealed items in a store with a purpose to commit theft.
"We started to notice a steady increase in shoplifting," said Police Capt. Paul Toussaint.
He said that the Police Department began putting a higher emphasis on publicizing willful concealment arrests, in hopes of deterring shoplifting around the city.
"Maybe they don't want their face in the paper," said Toussaint.
Recently, three of the willful concealment arrests came from alleged shoplifting at Walmart, while one arrest resulted from alleged shoplifting at Cumberland Farms near the center of the city.
Rochester resident Timothy Depalmer, 46, was arrested early morning on Jan. 13 on a warrant, alleging he shoplifted at Cumberland Farms, at 1 Knight St., on Nov. 14. Depalmer was released on $1,000 personal recognizance bail, with arraignment scheduled for Feb. 11, at 8 a.m., at Rochester Circuit Court.
On Friday, Jan. 18, around 2 p.m., police arrested Farmington resident Daniel Murphy, 51, for allegedly shoplifting at Walmart that same day.
Almost three hours later, they arrested 22-year-old Danielle Nacy, of 3 Fairway Drive in Farmington, on a warrant alleging she committed willful concealment at Walmart on Jan. 11.
On Saturday, Jan. 19, police arrested 32-year-old Joshua D. Greig, of 34 Drake Hill Road in Strafford. Greig had an active warrant for a willful concealment charge, alleging he shoplifted at Walmart on Jan. 15.
After their arrests, Murphy, Nacy, and Greig were released on $1,500 personal recognizance bail. Their arraignment is scheduled for Feb. 25, at 8 a.m., at Rochester Circuit Court.
According to Toussaint, while all four suspects are facing misdemeanor-level charges, willful concealment becomes a Class B felony if the value of the stolen goods exceeds $1,000.

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Can Scientists and Journalists Work Together to Improve Coverage of the Hurricane-Global Warming Controversy?
Journalists assigned to cover the April 25, 2006, debate over hurricanes and global warming in Monterey, California, may have been justifiably confused. The panel – part of the American Meteorological Society's twenty-seventh meeting on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology – pitted two distinguished scientists convinced that global climate change has already intensified the average hurricane against two other distinguished scientists who question the reliability of the data used to draw this conclusion. Chris Landsea of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a skeptic of any strong link between hurricane strength and climate change, memorably captured the state of scientific uncertainty when he said, "Everyone involved in this panel discussion is searching for the truth, and I want to compliment everyone for doing that." He continued: "I get along personally with everyone involved and I want to continue that – even if they're wrong."
The debate over whether and to what extent global warming may be influencing the behavior of the world's hurricanes is scientifically complex, rife with data issues, and superimposed atop a disciplinary rift between climate scientists and hurricane forecasters as well as a politically charged debate over what, if anything, needs to be done about it. Whatever relationship is ultimately found to exist between hurricanes and climate change, it will inevitably be complex and statistical. Global warming (defined as an average increase in global temperatures) can never be determined to "cause" a specific storm. However, global warming may affect a great many environmental factors that could, in turn, strengthen hurricanes on average and increase their destructive potential.
First, there's evidence that global warming will make (or has already made) storms stronger for thermodynamic reasons. Furthermore, if global warming increases the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere then hurricanes – which cause heavy precipitation and sometimes massive flooding – may produce more rain; similarly, if global warming causes a significant rise in sea level, destructive hurricanes may penetrate further inland. Based on what we already know about global warming, such changes are considered likely in the coming decades, yet the importance of other factors remains much more obscure. Consider the effect of an El Nino year, characterized by strong warming in the tropical Pacific ocean off the coast of South America: It tends to suppress hurricanes in the North Atlantic but increase them in the Eastern Pacific. So how will global warming alter the frequency and strength of what scientists refer to as the El Nino-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO? At this point the question isn't settled, although scientists suspect that there will probably be an effect.
Scientific Uncertainty and the Tyranny of the News Peg
What does it all add up to? A true headache even for the most seasoned science reporter. "Journalism isn't used to these kinds of problems," remarks Andrew Revkin of the New York Times, who has covered the hurricane-global warming debate. He continues: "The great strength of the global warming argument lies in the balance of the evidence. The closer you bore into specific impacts like hurricanes, however, the more equivocal the science gets." In the face of such complexity, it may seem tempting to pronounce that an utter mismatch exists in this case between the culture of journalism and the culture of science – that, in other words, meaningful reporting on the hurricane-global warming controversy is doomed from the start. In fact, that would be going too far.
Our examination of hurricane-global warming coverage across the national trend-setting newspapers and major regional papers found several noteworthy articles accurately detailing the complexity of the science. At the same time, however, we found some reporters—sometimes in the context of the same stellar writing—building their stories around emotional conflict between scientists, a tendency that drives the researchers themselves to become quite angry at the media.
In truth, however, scientists' complaints about journalists stirring up or even exacerbating personal controversies capture only one problem with media coverage of the hurricane-global warming link. A more overarching issue is this: Although journalists have framed the story from three main angles—an emphasis on breaking scientific news (defined by the release of a study at Science or Nature), an emphasis on conflict between scientists (by playing up personal tensions at conferences), and an emphasis on government accountability (the control of media statements made by agency scientists)—in each case they have been far too trapped by what Revkin has called the "tyranny of the news peg."
Motivated by a need to appear objective and cautious, journalists have tried to tie their coverage too closely to breaking events or controversy, a pattern that can be very ill suited to a complex scientific topic like the hurricane-global warming issue. Unfortunately, such coverage sacrifices key elements that readers need most, especially as the 2006 hurricane season enters its peak months of August and September: Sustained attention, a strong emphasis on scientific context, and then—even in the face of inevitable and undeniable scientific uncertainty—an integrated discussion of policy options.
A Connection to Global Warming?
Hurricanes have struck North America and the Caribbean from time immemorial; in 1502, during his fourth voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus dodged a hurricane in the Caribbean Sea. The contemporary focusing event for hurricanes in the U.S. came in 1992, when Hurricane Andrew hammered the Bahamas, Florida, and Louisiana, causing an estimated 26.5 billion dollars in damage. Andrew represented something of an anomaly for its era, however; scientists now believe that a "new normal" for hurricane activity in the North Atlantic began in 1995.
Since then, news organizations have turned hurricane season into an annual ritual, with correspondents descending on the Gulf Coast region every August and September. The stakes were raised dramatically in the year 2004, when an unprecedented four storms—Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne—flattened Florida, costing tens of billion of dollars in insured and uninsured damage. After 2004, few expected that the 2005 North Atlantic season could actually be worse, but of course, it was. A record 28 storms occurred last year, among them monsters like Katrina, Rita, and Wilma, which had the lowest central pressure of any known hurricane in the North Atlantic, a key measure of storm intensity.
Dramatically active North Atlantic hurricane seasons like 2004 and 2005 inevitably trigger speculation about a possible role for global warming—and even before the aforementioned 2005 studies addressed the topic, the theoretical reasons for suspecting an influence were clear. Although many factors affect hurricane strength and the regions in which they occur, scientists have understood since at least the 1950s that hurricanes are fundamentally driven by warm ocean water – that they are, as MIT hurricane expert Kerry Emanuel has put it, "heat engines."
A hurricane's inflowing winds draw heat energy from the ocean through the process of evaporation, which locks so-called "latent heat" into molecules of water vapor. At the storm's eye wall, the moist, warm and spiraling air rises in thick cumulonimbus clouds, fueling a dramatic pressure drop that pulls winds inward still faster along the sea surface. Meanwhile, higher in the atmosphere, the latent heat is released as "sensible heat," warming the rising air and raising it still higher. In an intensifying hurricane whose central pressure is dropping, stronger inflowing winds trigger still more evaporation, leading to still more rising air, more latent heat release, and so on.
Given these fairly basic processes, many scientists consider it little more than common sense that if you increase the temperature of the ocean (as global warming has not only been predicted but demonstrated to do) then all else being equal, you will also increase the potential intensity that the average hurricane can achieve. (Whether you would increase the total number of storms is a different and more knotty question, and one that scientists have made less progress on.) And in fact, theoretical and computer modeling studies had long suggested that hurricanes would strengthen as global temperatures rose, and that their levels of precipitation would increase.
But the stakes increased considerably in 2005, with the publication of two prominent scientific papers – by MIT's Kerry Emanuel in Nature and by Peter Webster of the Georgia Institute of Technology and his colleagues in Science – suggesting that this problem wasn't merely one to be considered with an eye to the future; instead, it had already happened. The two studies triggered strong critical responses from many skeptical scientists, including Chris Landsea and others from the hurricane forecasting community, many of whom questioned the reliability of the historical data that Emanuel and Webster used in order to identify trends.
Framing Responsibility for Hurricane Katrina
Into this miasma wandered journalists, who had far more than complicated technical issues to grapple with. Within days of Katrina's landfall, a framing contest began to spin the still uncertain science in politically advantageous ways. The Emanuel study came out three weeks before Katrina made landfall; the Webster study eight days before Rita hit. On the one hand, a who's who of Democratic leaders including Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Jimmy Carter cited the recent scientific findings to warn that global warming had contributed to the hurricane problem, and to push for action on greenhouse gas emissions.
Variations on this message appeared in two September columns by Nicholas Kristof and two editorials at The New York Times, but also in work by columnists at the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post. Skeptics responded by disputing the scientific evidence and insisting that no serious cuts in emissions were required. "There is no relationship between global warming and the frequency and intensity of Atlantic hurricanes. Period," Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote, rather incautiously, in early September. Others suggested the real focus should be on adapting coastal areas to the likelihood of future disasters. Later would come reports of personal fights between scientists, and allegations of suppression of dissent at government agencies.
Amidst the political rhetoric and opinion-page debate, many of the science reporters we spoke with for this article believed that in the weeks after Katrina their job was to cover the nature of the science, rather than the dramatic framing of policy implications. "It's all kind of predictable," said Mike Toner of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "You know which side someone is on, so the only new element in all of this is data, is scientific research." Andrew Revkin of The New York Times also expressed skepticism about how advocates had been using the hurricane-climate issue: "Environmentalists and some scientists are trying to now frame hurricanes as the key thing. Back in the 1990s it was the burning Amazon, then it was the melting Arctic, and now it's the stronger hurricane story."
Most of the coverage by science writers clustered around the September 16 release of the Webster study in Science, though some reports about the Emanuel study in Nature appeared pre-Katrina. The format for spot news was familiar: Describe the main findings of the study as the lead and middle portion of the article; and then connect the work to any previously published findings. In many cases, articles ended with dissenting comments from scientists, but in shorter articles no counter arguments were included. At least partly addressing this weakness, science writers also wrote technical backgrounders, most of which appeared in the second half of September and early October. In these articles, they tried to draw readers away from the immediacy of the events, and to interpret the debate over the emerging science.
Contextualizing Uncertainty
Science writers, however, faced two major challenges. First, they had to counter the widespread (and incorrect) belief that global warming could be said to directly "cause" a single event like Katrina. In a September 24 backgrounder for The New York Times, Andrew Revkin went with this effective description: "The murkiness arises because the relationship between long-term warming of the climate and seas is only perceptible in statistical studies of dozens of storms, not in the origin or fate of any particular storm."
Unfortunately, in several articles, reporters appeared to actually confuse the issue of how to understand global trends in hurricane intensity with the question of what might have specifically caused individual hurricanes. For example, in an October 22 article for the Boston Globe, Beth Daley opened by describing the Nature and Science studies, but then transitioned into discussing the conditions in the Caribbean that might have contributed to Katrina's and Rita's destructive power. At no point in the article, however, did Daley draw a bright line for readers between long term trends in hurricane intensity and the causes of any specific hurricane or its behavior. Later, in Time magazine's much noted April cover story on global warming, reporter Jeffrey Kluger fell into the same trap, implying a causal relationship between global warming and Tropical Cyclone Larry, a powerful storm that had just struck Australia.
The second challenge involved relaying the disagreement between scientists in a way that improved on the standard "he said, she said" formula. Context is needed when applying this routine; without a careful dose of details, readers will be left with a cloud of unspecified doubt, as sometimes happened in post-Katrina coverage. (In this case, the most extreme examples took the form of reports filed by the major news networks, where the accent on visuals and drama, and the brevity of the reports, made addressing complexity almost impossible.)
On the other hand, one journalist who successfully went beyond the basic "he said, she said" formula was Juliet Eilperin of the Washington Post. In covering the Science study, Eilperin searched around for a researcher who appeared to be going through a process of conversion based on the new findings. She turned to Florida International University scientist Hugh Willoughby, who described it as difficult to find any holes in the new study. "Frequently scientific discoveries force people to reassess how they view something," said Eilperin of her method. "The fact that some of the former skeptics are willing to go on record and say that they might be changing their minds provides readers with a better context for what is going on."
In September and October, other news beats also picked up on the global warming and hurricane angle. At the Washington Post, for example, stories ran in the local sections about community meetings focused on the potential threat to the Chesapeake Bay area. Across several papers, foreign correspondents covered statements from European officials about the need for immediate U.S. action on global warming, and business writers reported on calls from the insurance industry for a rethinking of coastal development as well as for limits on greenhouse gas emissions. Veteran science writer Cornelia Dean focused in three articles for The New York Times on coastal development. One of these reports mentioned the connection between global warming and rising ocean levels and another made a brief mention of the suggested link to hurricanes, but neither topic comprised a central focus.
But by November 2005, as no new studies emerged from the major journals and the political clamor subsided, science reporters and their colleagues at other news beats found themselves without a convenient news peg. (It wouldn't be until early 2006 that journalists would turn to conferences or agency allegations as additional coverage opportunities.) As a consequence, with the exception of a handful of articles, the hurricane-climate issue disappeared from the pages of the agenda-setting newspapers, despite its potential significance.
Between August 30 and the end of October 2005, 19 news stories and opinion articles on the topic ran at The New York Times and Washington Post. Yet between November 2005 and August of this year, only 25 total articles have followed, and 6 of these included only incidental mentions based on reviews of TV programs, documentaries, or books. In comparison, during the same period, hundreds of articles have focused on the political dimensions of Katrina related to race, poverty, recovery efforts, and government competence.
Forward Looking Policy Coverage?
After the destruction of New Orleans by a hurricane and the publication of two major studies suggesting that human activities might have made the average hurricane more intense, news organizations needed to integrate the scientific debate with a serious discussion of the possible policy options, even in the face of ongoing scientific uncertainty. Hurricanes could not necessarily be entirely dismissed as random acts of God, or "whims of nature," as President Bush described them in his address to the nation from New Orleans. Instead, serious scientific evidence, however contested, suggested that the destructive impacts of hurricanes might have a human component, and that that human component would increase over time.
So the obvious question to ask should have been: Is cutting down on greenhouse gases a good way of addressing potentially growing hurricane risks? Or, given that a dramatic concentration of human greenhouse gas emissions are already in the atmosphere, committing us to a significant degree of warming already, do we have no choice but to simply adapt to hurricane risks through measures such as stronger levee and seawall construction, better evacuation routes and building codes, restoration of natural barriers, or perhaps restricting insurance for some coastal areas? These themes were scattered across the bulk of articles filed at the different news beats, but because they remained disconnected and fragmented, readers had little hope of connecting the dots and understanding the relevance of the information. Fragmentation also likely dampened a sense of urgency about the problem.
Perhaps not surprisingly given the limitations in news coverage, the only place where all of these separate factors came together was on opinion pages. For example, Nicholas Kristof, in his two September 2005 columns at The New York Times, and Ronald Brownstein in a column the same month at the Los Angeles Times, both cited the Nature and Science studies to warn that even in the face of scientific uncertainty, policy discussions needed to take place. "It's nuts to ignore a threat just because its hard to measure," wrote Kristof in a September 23 column. "We spend about $500 billion a year on a military budget, yet we don't want to spend peanuts to protect against climate change, which is a greater potential threat than any foreign military power."
In his column, Brownstein opened by providing background on the scientific debate, but then transitioned into a policy discussion, asserting: "Indeed, the implications are alarming enough that Washington should begin considering them before all the evidence is in." On coastal development, he quoted MIT's Emanuel as follows: "Everyone in my field feels strongly that this is the most important question, almost independent of whether there is global warming." Brownstein then closed by placing the debate on greenhouse gas emissions in the context of the 2005 federal energy bill, from which mandatory industry emissions cuts and improved fuel standards for cars were ultimately dropped.
By e-mail, we asked Kristof about the possibility for more "precautionary" journalism when it came to covering emerging science with large potential implications for society. "There's a risk that writing about risks in the future will end up being sensationalist or exaggerated," he wrote from South Africa, where he was on assignment. "But . . . frankly the public is better served by information about future risks that they can do something about than about those that have already played out."
If columnists could put these angles together last fall, why couldn't science writers? In combination with tight deadlines and space, science writers' need to appear objective and cautious in news reporting led to the heavy reliance on the release of a new study to justify filing a story. The perceived scientific uncertainty concerning the relationship between hurricanes and global warming also made science writers cautious about how to judge the newsworthiness of the issue. "The science is not absolutely settled on this question, and that's what keeps this from being a bigger story," said Eilperin of the Washington Post. She continued: "There should be a concern that if you get too far out ahead of the science, if you hype up the story and the science, then you misled readers." But shouldn't it be possible for journalists to fully describe scientific uncertainty and yet also introduce readers to the kinds of policy considerations that emerge if one takes a precautionary orientation towards the latest research?
Conflicts and Conferences as Front Page News
With objectivity and caution the guiding norms, in early 2006 some science writers turned to coverage of scientific conferences as their next news peg. In these contexts, outside of the normal vetting process and controlled discourse of the scientific journal article, uncertainty as well as personal conflicts can mushroom. "It's entirely normal that the first time a scientist presents his results is at a conference like this," said Kerry Emanuel when asked about the matter in Monterey. "You can't demand published results [at a conference], nor can you tell journalists they can't come to a conference."
Valerie Bauerlein's front page February 2 Wall Street Journal article represents both the perceived good and bad of this type of coverage. Reporting on the American Meteorological Association meetings in Atlanta, Bauerlein's article opens with a heavy accent on interpersonal conflict between scientists, a tone amplified by the Page One headline: "Cold Front: Hurricane Debate Shatters Civility of Weather Science." At the conference, wrote Bauerlein, the reasons for the deadly 2005 hurricane season "were almost too hot to handle." She then turned to criticisms of the Webster study in Science, quoting longtime Colorado State University hurricane specialist William Gray as saying that "Judith Curry [one of Webster's co-authors] just doesn't know what she's talking about," and then quoting Curry with the reaction that Gray suffered from "brain fossilization."
The use of scientific conferences and meetings as news pegs also appeared at the Houston Chronicle, the Tampa Tribune, the Denver Post, and several smaller papers, but none of these articles came even close to offering the same kind of opening fireworks. More than any other article, it seems clear that Bauerlein's piece is the one that scientists have in mind when they condemn the media for overemphasizing personal battles rather than seriously covering the science. Hurricane specialist Chris Landsea of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says his main reaction to the Wall Street Journal piece was "sadness." He continues: "It's unfortunate that the debate can kind of devolve into that kind of name calling."
Despite the dramatic headline and opening paragraphs, as a backgrounder, the 2059 word article by Bauerlein went on to provide some of the best insight into the technical dispute. Yet, the Wall Street Journal's decision to highlight personal conflict in the opening and headline to Bauerlein's article helped to feed a culture of distrust between scientists and journalists. (We contacted Bauerlein to talk to her about the story, but as per Wall Street Journal policy, were referred to her editor for comments.)
Holding Government Agencies Accountable
In addition to personal conflict, journalists found another hook for the hurricane-global warming story, once again tying their coverage to controversy, although this time of an institutional rather than interpersonal nature. They began to cover charges that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had taken a stance of unjustifiable denial of any hurricane-global warming link, and perhaps even had suppressed scientists within the agency who dissented from this perspective. The "government accountability" angle certainly merited coverage, but once again, it created a formula in which journalists could not pay adequate attention to policy options.
The origins of how government accountability became newsworthy traces back to official agency reaction immediately following Katrina. In Senate testimony on September 20, National Hurricane Center director Max Mayfield stated that the current period of intense Atlantic hurricane activity was "not enhanced substantially" by global warming. Then, as the 2005 hurricane season drew to a close, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (of which the hurricane center is part) held a press conference where an agency scientist told reporters that warmer ocean temperatures could be attributed solely to natural climate fluctuations and were "not related to greenhouse warming." In a press release and in the official agency magazine, NOAA went even further, asserting that the views expressed were a matter of consensus at the agency. In fact, however, no such consensus existed.
Still, the simmering controversy at NOAA did not appear in news coverage until after parallel revelations at the National Aeronautics and Space Agency emerged in early 2006. As first reported by Andrew Revkin in a January 29 article that ran as the lead story in the Sunday edition of The New York Times, NASA's James Hansen claimed that public affairs officials at the agency had tried to block his ability to make public statements about the urgency of addressing climate change. The prominence of the Times article generated a flurry of follow-up reports at other major media outlets, while setting in motion a series of events that continued to give the story legs.
According to Revkin, when he broke the NASA story, he knew of similar allegations at NOAA, but he could not get a scientist at the agency to go on record—a scenario that he believes quickly changed. "I think after the NASA episode, it emboldened people to go public," said Revkin. "The Hansen piece uncorked a bottle. It clearly made it easier for a lot of scientists to talk more freely."
Hansen continued to stir the pot in statements made at a conference in New York, where he claimed he knew NOAA scientists who were afraid to speak out about efforts at information control—comments reported by Juliet Eilperin in a February 11 Washington Post article. With pressure building on NOAA, the stage was set for a February 16 article at The Wall Street Journal by Antonio Regalado and Jim Carlton. The clincher was a Web posting by NOAA administrators in which the agency backed away from the previous year's statements about the existence a consensus view on hurricanes and global warming. An email followed the same day from the chief administrator to NOAA scientists encouraging them to "speak freely and openly." Regalado and Carlton included in their story the first on-the-record allegations from NOAA scientists regarding agency efforts to control their statements to the media.
On April 6, Eilperin offered new reporting at the Post, with comments from additional NOAA-affiliated scientists alleging that since 2004 they had been required to clear all press requests with administration officials. In these articles, what had started as a controversy over the emerging science of hurricanes had morphed into a political story about whistle blowers, with an emphasis on the accountability and transparency of government agencies. The accountably frame brings to light important information while allowing journalists to ply their investigative instincts. Nevertheless, reports on the NOAA allegations once again remained disconnected from the context of the science or any discussion of the policy options, only perpetuating a fragmented narrative about the link between hurricanes and global warming and what to do about it.
Science, Policy, and Objectivity
The absence of an ideal narrative on hurricanes and global warming emerges from a complexity of reasons. With tight deadlines and many competing issues surrounding not only Katrina, but global warming generally, there never appeared to be enough time or space to move beyond the tyranny of the news peg. Moreover, the need for science writers to appear cautious and objective also limited the types of assertions they could make, which in turn hindered their ability to shift towards a discussion of policy options. Whereas columnists like Nicholas Kristof and Ronald Brownstein had license to write in the face of scientific uncertainty about the bigger picture, science writers needed credentialed experts to go on record emphasizing the need for a policy focus. For whatever reason, even though out-of-office political leaders like Al Gore and spokespeople for major environmental groups kept pushing this theme, they never gained standing as sources in news coverage. Science writers made oblique references to these political claims, but generally used them to set up their "just the scientific facts" backgrounders.
In the future, however, this just isn't going to be good enough. Over the next decade or more, explaining the possible strategies for coping with intense hurricanes even in the face of uncertainty about the ways and extent to which hurricanes might be changing will pose a major challenge for news organizations. Reporters must strive to show the public not only the science in all of its complexity, but also to open a window on why addressing the problem matters and the choices the nation faces over how to do that. This will require balancing the desire to appear objective against the need for precautionary and forward-looking coverage – coverage that helps set the agenda for how we think about the possible effects of global warming. It will also require getting beyond the tyranny of relying on major new studies, personality conflicts, or overt political conflict as the primary means of defining what counts as newsworthy.
And just in time: Outside of the media spotlight, a vigorous discussion has already begun between scientists and policy analysts about the extent to which the emerging science on hurricanes and global warming does or does not justify an attempt to limit greenhouse gas emissions or adopt other precautionary policy measures. On the one hand, University of Colorado political scientist Roger Pielke, Jr. and his colleagues argue that by far the most important factors influencing our susceptibility to hurricanes are "growing population and wealth in exposed coastal locations." When viewed in comparison with the urgent need to address this societally-induced vulnerability, they maintain that the question of whether or not hurricanes might themselves be growing stronger is quickly overshadowed in significance. On the other hand, in an article in the May issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, a group of leading climate scientists and hurricane experts claim that the balance of the evidence already suggests a human impact on hurricanes, and urge a more precautionary approach to policy.
Both sides of this debate worry about the vulnerability of coastal areas, but then the question becomes, Will they become even more vulnerable due to global warming, and if so, what should we do about it? These issues, while of massive importance, are routinely ignored by policymakers; for example, New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin has stated that "Katrina is the standard" when it comes to rebuilding the city's levees, even though the more extreme global warming scenarios suggest that this could be woefully inadequate in the long term.
Responsibility for effectively covering these emerging policy questions should not rest solely with journalists. For example, Pielke suggests that improving coverage will require a rethinking of the role of scientists as communicators. "Scientists need to say why research about this is of public interest," argues Pielke. "If the scientists being interviewed, and the journalists don't include the policy context, it's a little bit of a Rorschach test for the public, and it gets mapped on to the underlying ideological debate." He points to a recent report by the British Royal Society that recommends that science journals, when releasing an important new study, also simultaneously publish a separate, peer-reviewed article that outlines the policy relevance of the work. When covering the release of future scientific studies, if journalists could simultaneously turn to authoritative, peer-reviewed assertions about what might be done in the policy realm, it might make it easier for them to move beyond a "just the science" approach.
Indeed, in late July a group of ten climate scientists and hurricane experts including Kerry Emanuel, Chris Landsea, Max Mayfield, Judith Curry, and Peter Webster issued a joint statement calling attention to the immediate policy implications of the hurricane problem. The group observed that although they currently disagree over whether hurricanes have measurably intensified due to global warming, that ongoing scientific debate should not distract from addressing the immediate problem of population growth and development in coastal regions. "We are optimistic that continued research will eventually resolve much of the current controversy over the effect of climate change on hurricanes. But the more urgent problem of our lemming-like march to the sea requires immediate and sustained attention," wrote the group. "We call upon leaders of government and industry to undertake a comprehensive evaluation of building practices, and insurance, land use, and disaster relief policies that currently serve to promote an ever-increasing vulnerability to hurricanes." The statement was covered by Andrew Revkin on July 25 as part of his paper's weekly Science Times section, but to date, it has yet to be picked up by other major media outlets.
In sum, science writers continue to worry about how the issue of hurricanes and global warming is being used politically, and many also assert that caution demands the publication of more research before they can move ahead on the story. These are all legitimate concerns, and the pressure exerted by both editors and media watchdogs to not "take sides" is real. Yet given their specialization and experience, science writers are perhaps uniquely qualified to shield themselves from allegations of bias, and to interpret the policy implications of the subjects they're covering for readers. As long as they ground their stories in thorough, fair-minded reporting and do not stray into unsupported speculation or unnecessary argumentation, these journalists could provide a true public service. Such changes in how journalists and scientists negotiate what counts as news could mean that, when the next big storm hits, we have a chance to bring the policy questions into sharper focus. Otherwise, the public will be left with an all-too-familiar repeating narrative of conflict and doubt.


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The Genevieve is like wearing a little Battenberg cake! It's sweet and strawberry and lemon. What isn't there to love?!
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Top – 100% Linen, Lace: 94% Nylon, 6% Elastane
Gentle machine wash separately. Do not soak, bleach or wring. Drip dry or dry without delay away from direct heat. Do not tumble dry. Warm iron only. Do not iron lace.
Bottoms – 70% Polyester, 28% Viscose, 2% Spandex
Hand wash only. Mild soap. Do not leave wet. Dry in shade. Do not iron.
If hanging in wardrobe, hang top and bottom pieces separately. Avoid rough surfaces.
COVID-19 update: while it is always our aim to minimise impact to customers, given the unprecedented impact of Coronavirus, there have been some temporary service interruptions.
Stella Phoenix has stringent quality control and safety practices to keep our staff and customers as safe as possible. We are still currently meeting our order processing time of 24-48 hours, however there are worldwide shipping delays and cancellations which are detailed below.
COVID-19 has caused a global reduction in flights. Subsequently, all other locations are likely to have some shipping delays, including express post in Australia. If you are shopping for special occasions that are time sensitive, please ensure you order as soon as possible to avoid any potential delays.
We thank all of our customers for their understanding and support during this time.
Safety warning: Stella Phoenix outfits may contain small items and embellishments which may present a choking hazard to children, including but not limited to sequins, beads, buttons, removable buttons, hook and eye attachments. Adult supervision is required.
By providing your email address during the order process you are consenting to us contacting you about your order. This includes updating you on the progress of your order, contacting to resolve issues with your order or following up with you if your order is incomplete.
Please choose your purchases carefully as Stella Phoenix does not accept returns or issue refunds for change of mind, natural wear and tear or incorrect sizing.
We provide a comprehensive size chart on our website to help you choose the correct sizing. Please refer to our size chart prior to making a purchase as we are unable to exchange sizes due to limited stock availability.
Stella Phoenix takes reasonable steps to ensure that the products we supply correspond closely to the samples and images on our website, social media and in our lookbooks. Due to variations in production runs, computer monitors, device screens, printing colour differences and natural imperfections in fabrics (especially natural fibres) there may be slight variations in colour, embellishment, pattern or construction from time to time. Stella Phoenix is not liable for these differences and will not accept returns on this basis.
Stella Phoenix has stringent quality control processes to ensure the quality of our products, including two separate quality control checks. It's therefore highly unlikely for a customer to receive a faulty product. It is your responsibility to check the product immediately upon delivery, but in any case within at least 30 days, and advise us of any faults or damage so that we can resolve the issue for you.
If you have received a Product with a fault, damage or defect, please contact us immediately at [email protected] and provide evidence of the fault, damage or defect along with proof of purchase.
The faulty Product must be returned to us prior to us processing your exchange or refund.
To return the Product to us, please arrange to post the Product to us by registered post so that the Product can be tracked. In the event the Product is deemed to be faulty, damaged or defective, we will refund your return postage costs, so please keep your receipts. We won't refund return postage costs of products that aren't faulty, damaged or defective.
If the Product is confirmed to have a major fault, we will repair (if possible), exchange or provide a refund for the Product to your original payment method, as elected by you.
If the Product has a minor fault, we will offer a store credit if a replacement is not available due to stock limitations or a full refund at our discretion.
Please allow up to 10 days for the refund or exchange to be processed.
Nothing in this clause is intended to exclude any of your statutory rights as a consumer under Australian Consumer Law.
All garments have a care label and care instructions are also available on our website. Customers are responsible for following the care instructions correctly. Stella Phoenix will not accept return of items where damage has occurred due to incorrect cleaning or care.
Stella Phoenix generously provides free express shipping on all orders delivered within Australia totalling more than AUD $129. For orders totalling less than this amount, a flat rate of $10 will apply for express postage.
Stella Phoenix generously provides free standard shipping on USA and Rest of World orders totalling more than AUD $129.
For orders totalling less than this amount, the following flat rates will apply for standard postage:
Asia, USA and Canada: AUD $15
Rest of World: AUD $25
Stella Phoenix uses third party courier companies and mail carriers to deliver customer orders. Each company has their own terms, conditions and processes which are outside of our control. Parcels are delivered according to the terms and conditions of the selected courier or carrier. Stella Phoenix is only responsible for your parcel up until the point it leaves our physical care. All risk in the Product shall pass to you upon delivery.
It is your responsibility to take care when opening the Product or packaging so as not to damage it. From the time when risk passes to you, we will not be liable for loss or damage to the Product except as otherwise provided below.
A person must be available at the specified shipping address to sign for delivery. If the courier company allows, you may grant them authority to leave the Product at a designated area (for example, at the front door) when placing your order. If you do, you understand and agree that this authority gives us and/or our couriers permission to leave the Product unattended at the place specified by you without obtaining a signature confirming delivery. In such circumstances, you understand and agree that by granting authority to leave the Products, we and our couriers are released of all responsibility and liability for the Products delivered and left unattended, and that this responsibility and liability transfers to you upon delivery.
Customers will receive an email confirming who is managing the delivery of their order, along with a tracking number. If your parcel does not arrive as expected, your first port of call is to contact the courier company or mail carrier, quoting your tracking number. If unresolved to your satisfaction, please make contact with us as a second step.
Stella Phoenix is not liable for delays or failure in delivery for circumstances that are outside our reasonable control (including third party policies and processes). For example, error or omission by courier companies/mail carriers or customs/importation processes. We are also not liable for delivery issues associated with limited access to the property or inaccurate/incomplete contact/address information provided by customers.
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Orders will be posted by us within 2 business days of the order being placed on our website.
We use Express post. Once shipped, please allow 1-3 days for Australia Post to deliver your order.
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We recommend our customers make adequate time allowances for shipping delays when ordering to avoid disappointment. If your order is urgent, please email us at [email protected] prior to ordering.
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We reserve the right to refuse any order placed with us for any reason, at our sole discretion. Only approved Stella Phoenix wholesalers are permitted to wholesale our product. All orders placed with Stella Phoenix are for domestic use and products must not be resold unless previously organised. If you wish to wholesale our product, please apply to wholesale here: https://www.stella-phoenix.com/wholesale/ Wholesalers are agreed at the sole discretion of Stella Phoenix and we reserve the right to revoke our wholesale agreement at any time, for any reason.
This contract is governed by the laws of Queensland, Australia and the Commonwealth of Australia and such other laws which are applicable in the country where the consumer is resident.
Stella Phoenix puts a lot of effort into providing a personalised service to our customers. If you have any questions or feedback please email us at [email protected] as we love hearing from you.
Please also email us if you have a complaint. We will endeavour to respond to your complaint within 5 business days of acknowledging our receipt of it. If you submit a complaint and do not receive a written acknowledgement, please contact us again to double check it has been received.
We pride ourselves on the quality of our customer service and will make every reasonable attempt to resolve a problem or complaint to the mutual satisfaction of all parties.
In the event that you are dissatisfied with the outcome of your complaint, you may refer the complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
From 2019 onwards, all new Stella Phoenix pieces come with a certificate of authenticity. Each certificate will have a tracking number and other security features to prevent certificate fraud. If you receive your new item without a certificate of authenticity, or you suspect you've received a fraudulent item and certificate, please email us immediately at [email protected]
Please note that any suspected copy or fraud of our products, certificates, branding or IP will be referred to law enforcement agencies and vigorously pursued.
Please ensure you keep your certificate safe. If you decide to apply to 'sell back' your items in our pre-loved program, you will be required to provide it.
Stella Phoenix offers domestic customers the opportunity to 'sell back' their pre-loved Stella Phoenix items in exchange for a store credit that they can use to purchase new items from our range. Our pre-loved #sharethelove program has been introduced to support ethical fashion choices and give customers the opportunity to love our items again!
To participate, customers are required to email photos and condition of the piece to [email protected] Emailing an item is not a guarantee that we will buy it back. Stella Phoenix can refuse to buy back an item for any reason, at our sole discretion, including but not limited to, oversupply of a particular item, the condition of the item is not conducive to re-sale and/or customer demand for an item.
If an item meets our re-sale requirements, Stella Phoenix will ask the customer to return the item to us via registered mail so we are able to complete quality control checks before agreeing to buy it back. This is for the health and safety of all customers. If the item passes our quality control check, and we agree to buy it back, we will refund the initial return mail or courier cost of the item upon customers producing a receipt. If an item doesn't pass our quality control checks, Stella Phoenix will return the item to the customer. We will not refund initial return mail or courier costs to customers where items are refused or where the customer is unable to produce a receipt to verify mail or courier costs.
The value of the store credit that will be offered to customers in exchange for their pre-loved items will depend on the item, its condition, customer demand and is determined at the sole discretion of Stella Phoenix. Customers are welcome to refuse an offer and Stella Phoenix will return the item to the customer at our own cost. Where a customer refuses a store credit for a pre-loved item, Stella Phoenix won't refund their initial return mail or courier costs.
For health and safety reasons, pre-loved items will be washed by us according to the label cleaning instructions before re-sale, however it is recommended that customers purchasing pre-loved items also wash before wearing. It is the customer's responsibility to follow our pre-loved care and cleaning advice.
Customers participate in our pre-loved program with the full understanding that Stella Phoenix maintains sole discretion over the final RRP of pre-loved items, that we are entitled to re-coup the costs of facilitating the program, and there is no further compensation owed outside of the agreed "sell back" price.
Customers who purchase items from our pre-loved section are welcome to re-apply for buy back after a period of 6 months. Agreement to buy back again will be subject to these terms and conditions, which may change from time to time.
Given our stringent quality control processes, it is highly unlikely for a customer to receive a faulty pre-loved item. If you believe your pre-loved item is faulty, please refer to our purchasing and returns info for further information.
Please note: items from the 2019 'Imagine' collection onwards will only be bought back if they are accompanied by an original Stella Phoenix certificate of authenticity. Please see the certificate of authenticity section for more information.
The #sharethelove program is only available to domestic customers. Stella Phoenix will not buy back wholesale items or Stella Victoire items. If a customer bought a Stella Phoenix item from one of our approved stockists, they will be required to produce a receipt to verify their purchase. Items cannot be bought back for 'cash.'
Stella Phoenix may choose to offer samples for sale at a discounted price. These items may have been worn and may also have minor faults or defects. The known faults or defects will be disclosed to the customer prior to purchase, however the customer accepts that there may be other faults or defects unknown to us. The customer purchases the product knowing it may not present or perform to the standard of a new, full priced garment. Stella Phoenix is not liable for the faults and defects on sample items and will not accept returns.
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The Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) is an independent organization within the IRS and is your voice at the IRS. TAS is led by the National Taxpayer Advocate and has employees throughout the country whose job is to make sure every taxpayer is treated fairly, and that you know and understand your rights. We offer free help to guide you through the often-confusing process of resolving your tax problems that you haven't been able to solve on your own.


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Capricornus the Seagoat
The name Capricornus has been shortened to Carpricorn by some folks. But that is a very recent thing, like only in the last hundred years maybe. Either way, it means Seagoat. And Seagoat is the oldest known name still in use for anything in the whole sky. People have been calling these stars the Seagoat for more than 7000 years. Even the ancient Chinese referred to these stars as the Mo Ki, which is goat fish.
Nobody really knows why these stars are the Seagoat. Oh there have been some attempts to sort it out. One historian suggested it might somehow be derived from a mythical nurse that took care of the gods when they were babies. The nurse looked Asian and eventually turned into a goat, what? I just don't know if the story is credible and it sounds a bit racist even. We already have a goat and a fish here. Throw in an Asian nurse who grew horns, I mean, it's getting pretty complicated and may have something to do with a personal fetish.
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Perhaps our Sun, or our galaxy plays a dot in a diagram of some alien zodiac. Pretty sure even from Mars, our zodiacs would appear different? If people are ever born on other planets or in deep space, astrologers will be in for a real dilemma. What's you sign? I'm a paramecium born on planet x.
Mars is totally local, in that the zodiac appears exactly the same, except that it sees Earth moving against it and not itself, and it has two moons.
The original naked eye planets had astrological influences that resembled their names. Mercury made you mercurial, Saturn made you saturnine, Jupiter made you jovial, Mars made you martial. Venus of course had to do with our love life. But now, with telescopes we have Uranus. Does it make you urinal? That's the thing men pee in. Neptunial? Plutonian? Likewise, if you are born on Mars, are you more or less martial? And what if Earth is in your sign? What does that do? Make you earthy?
Mars may be local but I know the astrology charts are amazingly detailed and based on seasonal variations. I was reading about how the seasons on Mars are similar but different. It tilts away from the sun like earth. People live their lives based on that junk...Nice Posts !


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The contemporary term false flag describes covert operations that are designed to deceive in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by entities, groups, or nations other than those who actually planned and executed them.[1]
Historically, the term "false flag" has its origins in naval warfare where the use of a flag other than the belligerent's true battle flag as a ruse de guerre, before engaging the enemy, has long been accepted.[1]Operations carried out during peace-time by civilian organizations, as well as covert government agencies, can (by extension) also be called false flag operations if they seek to hide the real organization behind an operation.


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Photo: Fire suppression, test valves, drain pipes and gauges. The oft-forgotten crannies of a hospital provide many eclectic industrial scenes to enjoy.
It's hard to get a good night's sleep at a hospital. My wife's doing a little better, but we're not yet sure when she's coming home or what exactly is wrong. Fortunately, the hospital's right across the street from a bus stop, and I made it to work today.
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The purpose of screening is early diagnosis and treatment. Screening tests are usually administered to people without current symptoms, but who may be at high risk for certain diseases or conditions.
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At this time, there are no screening tests or screening guidelines for inflammatory bowel disease.
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Because about 5% of people with ulcerative colitis develop colon cancer, screening for colon cancer is an important component of the management of inflammatory bowel disease. If you have colitis, it is recommended that you have a colonoscopy every 1-2 years to check for precancerous changes or cancer in your colon. During a ]]>colonoscopy]]>, a thin, lighted tube is inserted through the rectum and into the colon to examine the lining of the entire colon.
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Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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Elmo's Christmas Countdown is a storybook adaptation of the 2007 Sesame Street special Elmo's Christmas Countdown.
An elf falls out of Santa Claus' sleigh, losing the ten boxes out of his magical Christmas Counter-Downer. The boxes need to be replaced, or Christmas won't come.
Elmo promises to help the elf count down to Christmas, and they wish on a star for a miracle. One by one, Elmo's friends walk by -- Abby Cadabby, Bert, Super Grover, Big Bird, Ernie and Rubber Duckie, Baby Bear and his family -- and they each contribute a box to the elf's collection.
Finally, the elf slips and falls in the snow, having tripped over the final box. Elmo, Abby and the elf count down from 10 to 1, and Santa Claus is seen in the sky, bringing Christmas cheer to the world.


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Brixton Metal and Wood Industrial Wall Collectors Drawer Display Unit (60 x 18 x 73cm)
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Brixton Metal and Wood Industrial Wall Collectors Drawer Display Unit.
The Brixton range of complementary furniture uses aged wood, distressed metal, metal grilles, vintage style handles, decorative detailing, and antiqued iron castors, all coming together in a stylish range of furniture creating a recycled warehouse style that will add some contemporary style to your home.
(Due to the nature of metal items, small imperfections may occur as this furniture is handmade, and hand finished).
The size is w60 x d18 x h73cm.
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[ Article crossposted from bionet.molbio.rapd ] [ Author was Phil McClean ] [ Posted on Fri, 3 Mar 1995 15:20:24 GMT ] Does anyone know if a version of Mapmaker compiled for Linux exists anywhere? If so, please let me know, I would like to get a copy of it. Phil McClean Dept. of Plant Sciences North Dakota State University Fargo, ND 58105 mcclean at beangenes.cws.ndsu.nodak.edu


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ELSA PERETTI for TIFFANY Estate Sterling Sevillana Necklace
Born in Florence, Elsa Peretti's first introduction with her collection began at Tiffany & Co. in 1974. During that time her collection debuted to high acclaim. Her inspiration in jewelry came from nature with elements such as bones, beans, hearts, scorpions, snakes, teardrops and sea-shells. Peretti's designs are translated in a wide variety of materials, however her most popular designs are her works in silver.
This beautiful open ring necklace from Tiffany & Co. is one of Elsa Peretti's classic designs! Made of sterling silver, the simple yet lovely pendant takes the shape of a medium sized open elliptical form. Simple yet lovely, the pendant looks beautiful on and hangs from a black silk cord which loops through the center and knots in the back. The heart is stamped "925" along with the authentic "TIFFANY & CO." and "Elsa Peretti" signatures and the word "SPAIN". This fabulous piece from a legendary jewelry maker would be a perfect addition to any jewelry collection!
Measurements: The black silk cord measures approximately 16" long. The pendant measures 1" tall, 7/8" wide, and 3/16" thick at its thickest point.
Condition: The overall condition of the piece is excellent. Besides normal surface wear, there is no serious damage to the sterling silver ring pendant and minimal wear to the black silk cord.


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Young women's life preferences acknowledge workplace reality
Social media has been buzzing about the results of a survey released this week by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. The survey was carried out last March among men and women, both single and married, between the ages of 15 and 39. The results that provoked the most discussion had to do with attitudes toward marriage, or, more precisely, a woman's role in a marriage.
When asked if they want to be full-time homemakers, 34.2 percent of the female respondents said "yes" or "probably." And while more women, 38.5 percent to be exact, said they didn't want to be homemakers, the portion who said they did was apparently higher than people expected, especially now that the government is pushing an agenda to make it easier for women to join the workforce and contribute more directly to the economy.
Some people are saying that these results indicate a regressive attitude among women, but it's impossible to say from the results that the women who want to be homemakers are being guided by some kind of cultural gender identification.
When men were asked in the survey if they wanted their wives to be homemakers, 19.3 percent said "yes" or "probably," which implies that the other four-fifths want their wives to work. That's because they know that a single income isn't enough any more to support a household, especially one that does or will someday include children.
When the women were asked how much income they thought their husbands should make a month, 40.8 percent said ¥200,000-¥300,000, 24.8 percent said ¥300,000-¥400,000 and a mere 4.2 percent said "it doesn't matter." So much for marrying for love.
A more likely reason for this desire to stay at home is a perceived understanding of workplace norms, something the labor ministry didn't ask about. In a different survey conducted by the Japan Management Association, young men (751) and women (249) already in the workforce were asked if they aspired to be leaders among their colleagues. Of the female respondents, 81 percent said they would rather be "supportive."
One of the more pressing issues in Japan is the paucity of women managers, a situation that is blamed on implacable male dominance in the workplace. The association analyzes this result as meaning that women value their private lives over their careers. In other words, they don't think they can raise children or have families if they are in leadership positions. And, in fact, this is still a widely held belief.


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A small bowel resection is the removal of part of the small intestine. The small intestine includes the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum. The surgery can be done through an open incision or using smaller incisions using a laproscope.
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This procedure may be done to treat the following:
Problems from the procedure are rare, but all procedures have some risk. Your doctor will review potential problems, like:
Factors that may increase the risk of complications include:
Your doctor may do the following:
Leading up to your procedure:
General anesthesia —you will be asleep during the procedure
The procedure may be done with one of two methods:
In either type of surgery, the small intestine will be clamped above and below the diseased section. This section will be cut free and removed.
If there is enough healthy intestine left, the free ends of the intestine may be joined together. Otherwise, a permanent or temporary ileostomy is created. An ileostomy is an opening called a stoma in the abdomen. The end of the small intestine closest to the stomach is attached to the opening. This allows intestinal contents to drain into a sealed pouch on the outside of the body. If a temporary ileostomy is created, another operation will be necessary several months later to reverse it.
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The abdomen incisions will be closed with stitches.
About 1-4 hours
Anesthesia will prevent pain during surgery. Pain and discomfort after the procedure can be managed with medications.
The usual length of stay is 5-7 days. Your doctor may choose to keep you longer if complications arise or if you had a large amount of intestine removed.
A catheter will be placed in your bladder before surgery. You will also have a nasogastric tube. This is a small tube that goes in through your nose and down into your stomach. The tube may be used to drain fluids from your stomach or to help deliver food to your stomach. The catheter and tube will remain until you are able to eat and go to the bathroom normally.
You will have some activity restrictions, such as avoiding heavy lifting. Moving around will help prevent blood clots and promote healing. Follow wound care instructions to avoid infection. Your healthcare team will teach you how to care for your ileostomy and provide you with resources.
Call your doctor if any of these occur:
If you think you have an emergency, call for emergency medical services right away.
American College of Surgeons
National Cancer Institute
Canadian Association of Gastroenterology
Canadian Cancer Society
Laparoscopic small bowel resection. Upstate University Hospital website. Available at: http://www.upstate.edu/community/services/mis/resection.php. Accessed April 3, 2018.
Small bowel resection. Encyclopedia of Surgery website. Available at: http://www.surgeryencyclopedia.com/Pa-St/Small-Bowel-Resection.html. Accessed April 3, 2018.
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Get to know a vast array of top-shelf whiskies and spirits from distilleries across the world.
Graze on an assortment of gourmet eats while tasting.
Surround yourself with people who share your passion for whisky and spirits.
Cultivate your whisky and fine spirits knowledge with expert instruction.
This year there will be vodkas, gins, rums and cognacs in addition to a great line up of whisky.
Whisky Live is an event for adults 18 and older.
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WHISKY LIVE and FINE SPIRITS showcases a large selection of high-quality whiskies and spirits, all open for sampling. This event will suit the whisky lover as well as the gin, vodka, rum or other spirit lover. The event presents whiskies and spirits by brand, with an expert there to inform and educate and let you taste. A quality spirits glass is supplied to keep, plus a tasting guide is supplied at the event and available digitally one week before the event for download. The Guide lists all the whiskies and spirits for sampling and gives flavour profiles so you can select your preferred expressions and plan the order you would like to taste. (The link to the Tasting Guide will be shown on your ticket)
So, if you like whisky, gin, rum or vodka, Whisky Live and Fine Spirits is the place to discover them all. If you know somone who likes whisky, and you prefer gin, you should both come along as there will be lots for both of you to experience. Plus of course, there will be a selction of food to graze on while tasting. And at the end if you really like what you taste, you can purchase a bottle to take home. Whisky Live and Fine Spirits is a great event!
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Rare & Old Bar - This bar has a fine selection of rare and old whiskies, often unafordable or difficult to find. Here a 15ml sample may be purchased, allowing you to taste such whiskies at an affordable price. Sample a whisky from a closed distillery or a limited release from long ago. There's a good range with prices from $22 per 15ml serve.
Rare & Old Bar Gift Voucher: A ticket to Whisky Live and Fine Spirits is a great gift, but for something even more special for the whisky drinker, how about a special dram, from the Rare & Old Bar? We have a new Gift Voucher to purchase that can be redeemed to cover the cost of any whisky from the Rare and Old Whisky Bar at Whisky Live. Add a desired amount to the voucher and we'll post it to you in an attractive folder ready to give. Add the ticket and it will be a great gift. Click here to see the Gift Voucher page.
Important Note
Liquor licensing laws state any intoxicated person must be removed from the event, so please don't become intoxicated. Whisky is a reliatively high-alcohol drink and intoxication can happen if consumption is not self monitored
How long is the event?
The event session runs for 3.5 hours.
Select the preferred session day and time when purchasing your ticket.
What do I have to bring?
Everything you need is supplied - a whisky glass, pen, tasting guide and a bag to put it in and keep your hands free.
Can I purchase bottles I like at Whisky Live?
Yes. The Whisky Live Shop will be there to cater for you.
How can I contact the organiser with any questions?
Go to the contact page on our website. www.whiskylive.com.au and click 'contact'
What's the refund policy?
Tickets are non-refundable, but are transferrable to another person or to a different session time if available. Exchange of session time may be done by the ticket holder by logging into Eventbrite using email address.
Is it ok if the name on my ticket or registration doesn't match the person who attends?
Yes, the ticket is only required for it's QR code and all other details are irrelevant for admission.
Date and Time
Grand Chancellor Hotel
65 Hindley Street
Adelaide, SA 5000
Refund Policy
No Refunds


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Hope College students are receiving three national and regional awards for excellence in research from Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology.
Krista Mehari, a senior from Grand Rapids, has been chosen to receive one of only four undergraduate research awards being presented nationwide by Psi Chi during the national convention of the American Psychological Association being held in Toronto, Canada, on Thursday-Sunday, Aug. 6-9. Seniors Nova Hinman of Portage and Ross Knoll of Grand Haven will each be receiving Regional Research Awards from the Midwestern chapter of Psi Chi during the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association in Chicago, Ill., on Thursday-Saturday, April 30-May 2.
Several Hope students have received national Psi Chi recognition for research through the years, most recently in the summer of 2006 and the summer of 2003. In addition, this year marks the 10th consecutive year that Hope students have been named winners of regional awards and the fourth year in a row that multiple Hope students have received regional recognition. Hinman, Knoll and Mehari had all also received regional recognition in May 2008.
Mehari is receiving her national award in August for her paper "Parenting practices and externalizing behaviors among Latino(a) and White adolescents," based on research she conducted last summer with Dr. Lorna Hernandez Jarvis, professor of psychology, and Dr. Patricia Roehling, professor of psychology. The study examined which parenting practices are beneficial and which are harmful, and whether or not the effects of the practices differ based on the ethnicity of the students. Surveying more than 100 sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students across three years, the study found that the relationship between parenting practices and adolescent behaviors differs for White and Latino families. The study found that parental monitoring is related to a decrease in delinquent behaviors among White adolescents but does not appear to affect the delinquent behaviors of Latino(a) adolescents, and that the use of harsh discipline is related to an increase in the delinquent behaviors of White adolescents while related to a decrease in the delinquent behaviors of Latino(a) adolescents.
In May 2008, Mehari and two other students received a regional Psi Chi award for their research paper "The Relationship of Self-Esteem, Parenting Practices and Gender to Externalizing Behaviors Among Latino Adolescents," which was based on their work with Jarvis and Roehling.
Hinman and Knoll are each receiving regional honors for research concerning forgiveness and gratitude conducted with Dr. Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet, associate professor of psychology. They are sharing their awards, since each is also the secondary author of the other's project. Last year, they also shared a regional Psi Chi award for a paper that they co-authored a paper based on their work with vanOyen Witvliet.
Hinman is being recognized this year for "Finding the Silver Lining and Loving the Enemy: Linguistic Analyses of Brief Benefit-Finding and Altruistic Forgiveness Interventions to Cope with an Interpersonal Offense." The study compared written narratives participants provided after ruminating about or reappraising their interpersonal hurt. Both altruism and benefit-finding prompted positive emotion and insight, while decreasing negative emotion language. Altruism increased social, optimistic and religious language, with the most references to forgiveness. Benefit-finding decreased social references, but stimulated gratitude.
Knoll is being honored for "Thinking and Thanking: The Effects of Forgiveness and Gratitude Reappraisal Imagery in Response to a Real-Life Offense." The study measured the psychophysiological effects of altruistic forgiveness and benefit-finding compared to rumination about a past real-life offense. Remembering the past offense heightened cardiovascular activity and negative facial displays, while the two reappraisal strategies decreased negative emotions and facial displays and increased positive emotion, forgiveness and gratitude.
Also during the April 30-May 2 regional meeting in Chicago, students who participated in the Advanced Research class taught last fall by Dr. Mary Inman, professor of psychology, will be making presentations concerning studies they conducted focused on discrimination: "The Role of Emotions on the Perception of Ageism," and "The Effects of Pride, Guilt, and Sympathy on Perceptions of Racism."
The Psi Chi national honor society was founded in 1929 to encourage, stimulate and maintain excellence in scholarship, and advance the science of psychology. Psi Chi has chapters at more than 1,000 senior colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Since its founding, the honor society has registered more than 500,000 members.
Psi Chi chapters are grouped within six regions: Eastern, Midwestern, Rocky Mountain, Southeastern, Southwestern and Western. The Midwestern Region includes Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
Hope's chapter of Psi Chi was chartered in 1965.


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College swimming
College swimming
Army diver Chris Nguyen became the third three-time league champ on the 3-meter board.
Army's Molly Mucciarone won the 50-yard freestyle in a school-record time of 23.03 seconds — she is the first Army swimmer to win that event since 2001.
The Army women's 200 free relay won in 1:33.00, also a record. The Army men's 200 free relay team placed second in 1:21.06, beating a 23-year-old school record.


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ESA's SMART-1 on course on lunar landing anniversary
Thirty five years ago today, on 20 July 1969, the Apollo 11 lunar module landed on the Moon at 16:18 EDT, with only 30 seconds of fuel remaining. US astronaut Neil Armstrong reported: "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
Mission Control erupted in celebration as the tension broke, and said "You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue, we're breathing again." At 22:56 EDT, Armstrong was ready to plant the first human foot on another world. With more than 500 000 million people watching on television, he climbed down the ladder and proclaimed, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
Edwin Aldrin joined him and offered a simple but powerful description of the lunar surface: "Magnificent desolation." They explored the surface for two and a half hours, collecting samples and taking photographs.
Now a European spacecraft is flying to the Moon, slowly but steadily, using revolutionary propulsion techniques and carrying a battery of miniaturised instruments to continue the lunar exploration started many years ago.
Over 30 years after the last Apollo mission visited the Moon in 1972, there is still much that we do not know about our nearest satellite. For example, how was it created? What role did it play in the formation and evolution of Earth? ESA's SMART-1 may help to answer these questions.
As well as testing new technology, SMART-1 will make the first comprehensive inventory of key chemical elements in the lunar surface. It will also investigate the theory that the Moon was formed following the violent collision of a smaller planet with Earth, four and a half thousand million years ago.
But the main purpose of the SMART-1 mission is to flight-test the new solar-electric propulsion technology (or 'ion engine') – a kind of solar-powered thruster that is ten times more efficient than the usual chemical systems employed when travelling in space. If all goes well, such a system could be providing the propulsion system for future ESA missions into deep space.
However, in the process, the mission will be providing some fascinating science. For example, SMART-1 will be mapping the lunar surface chemical composition more accurately than ever before.
SMART-1 will be leading the way in the latest imaging techniques. Images taken from many different angles and X-ray and infrared detection work will allow scientists to draw up new three-dimensional models of the Moon's surface.
SMART-1 will be looking at the darker parts of the Moon's south pole for the first time. It will be mapping the so-called Peak of Eternal Light, an eerie mountain top that is permanently bathed in sunlight, while all around are dark craters never touched by the Sun. These craters are believed to harbour water-ice in the lunar soil.
SMART-1 will also help scientists to confirm if ice is present at the lunar poles, where the temperature never rises above –170°C. Any water on the lunar surface would be very helpful in the creation of permanent bases on the Moon.


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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Join us September 10th for Family Fun Day!
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
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Monday, August 22, 2011
Dolphin Fun is Ageless and Timeless!
Recently, a 95 year old woman visited Dolphin Research Center to try something she'd longed dreamed of experiencing.
Louise Spencer and members of her family enjoyed a Dolphin Encounter with Santini. Although DRC staff was on hand to provide assistance to Louise, clearly she didn't need it. She and Santini shared a spectacular dorsal tow through the lagoon!
Her visit inspired us all to remember that you're never too old to have fun and you should experience your dreams whenever possible.
Go Louise!
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Monday, August 15, 2011
Happy Birthday to Sandy!
Thirty two years ago today, Sandy was born. He must have been an adorable calf and he grew into a handsome guy almost nine and a half feet long! Some consider him shy and then they get to know his energetic "dolphinality" and his ability to create some of the most entertaining ad-libbed behaviors of any dolphin in the pod.
Born at Sea World in Florida, he later moved to New England Aquarium where he met Rainbow. These two then joined the DRC family in October, 1991.
Happy Birthday, San-Man! We love you.
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Welcome to Union
Remember adventure? Bring the family to Union Washington and rediscover the outdoors, take in the sunsets over the mountains in the neighboring Olympic National Park, where Mt. Washington, Mt. Constance, and the Brothers rise across Hood Canal forming a breathtaking vista from almost any point in Union. It's no wonder that Union holds the title of the first artist colony in Washington.
A few of Union's current attractions include working farms and roadside markets, the world-class Alderbrook golf course and clubhouse open to the public, Hood Canal Marina and public boat launch and Union City Market, the four-star spa and lodge Alderbrook Resort, award winning shopping at the Cameo Boutique & Wine Shop, organic gardens and public labyrinth at Harmony Hill Retreat Center, and of course, the deep saltwater fjord of Hood Canal.
Today, visitors come for summers of sunshine and shellfish, and the annual return of the salmon. As well as the introspection of winter, to watch the herons out on the docks, motionless at high tide. There is always a wide variety of arts activities, as well as boating, fishing, hunting, shellfishing, hiking, kayaking and birding in Union.


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Aug. 9, 2012
CONTACT: Jim Tynen (919) 834-2099
Raleigh, N.C. – A new Civitas Flash Poll shows Wilmington voters would consider replacing the current mayor and three councilmen when they go to the polls next year. And of those voters who express a preference, more are planning to vote against the incumbents than are planning to vote for them.
The poll asked registered voters in Wilmington if there was an election today who they'd vote for, or whether they weren't sure until they knew who else was on the ballot. Of those indicating a preference, 19 percent were for Mayor Bill Saffo and 27 percent against. In the council races, the results were 11 percent for/18 percent against Kevin O'Grady; 11 percent for/22 percent against Earl Sheridan; 16 percent for/27 percent against Charlie Rivenbark.
The "depends on the ballot" responses were 54 percent for Saffo, 71 percent for Councilman O'Grady, 63 percent for Councilman Sheridan, and 56 percent for Councilman Rivenbark.
Moreover, a majority (56 percent) of voters thought the city council was irresponsible in spending taxpayers' money; only 32 percent thought they spend the public's dollars responsibly. That shows slippage from a February Civitas Flash Poll, in which 35 percent thought the council was fiscally responsible, and only 48 percent thought they were irresponsible.
In that February Civitas Flash Poll, 52 percent approved of the job Saffo was doing as mayor; 40 percent approved of the job City Council was doing. "The questions are different, but are similar enough to suggest voters' attitudes are moving the wrong way, from the incumbents' point of view," said Civitas President Francis X. De Luca.
Looking at the newer poll, "Less than one in five voters is committed to any of these four officeholders," De Luca added. "Though it's a while until the next election, usually incumbents, especially longtime ones, build up foundations of support. The current mayor and councilmen appear to have alienated some voters at this point in time."
For more information on Civitas polling, see http://www.nccivitas.org/category/poll/.
Full text of questions from August Flash Poll:
Wilmington will elect a mayor and city Council members in 2013. If there were an election for Wilmington Mayor today, which statement would describe you? One: I would vote FOR Bill Saffo no matter who else is on the ballot. Two: I would vote AGAINST Bill Saffo no matter who else is on the ballot. Three: I'm not sure how I would vote until I know who else is on the ballot.
19% FOR Saffo
27% AGAINST Saffo
54% Depends On Ballot
Now, some City Council seats. If there were an election for Wilmington City Council today, which statement would describe you in regards to Kevin O'Grady?
11% FOR O'Grady
18% AGAINST O'Grady
71% Depends On Ballot
Next, Earl Sheridan.
15% FOR Sheridan
22% AGAINST Sheridan
63% Depends On Ballot
Last, Charlie Rivenbark.
16% FOR Rivenbark
27% AGAINST Rivenbark
56% Depends On Ballot
Is the Wilmington City Council responsible? or irresponsible? when determining how to use taxpayer dollars?
32% Responsible
56% Irresponsible
12% Not Sure
For August Poll crosstabs, click here.
Full text of questions from February Flash Poll
Do you approve or disapprove of the job Bill Saffo is doing as Mayor?
52% Approve
45% Disapproved
3% Not sure
Do you approve or disapprove of the job the Wilmington City Council is doing?
40% Approve
51% Disapprove
9% Not Sure
Is the Wilmington City Council responsible? or irresponsible? when determining how to use taxpayer dollars?
35% Responsible
48% Irresponsible
17% Not Sure
About the Poll: 300 registered voters in the City of Wilmington were interviewed on Aug. 1 and 2. This poll was conducted by telephone in the voice of a professional announcer. Respondent households were selected at random, using Random Digit Dialed (RDD) sample provided by Survey Sampling, of Fairfield CT. All respondents heard the questions asked identically. Research methodology, questionnaire design and fieldwork for this survey were completed by SurveyUSA of Clifton, NJ. This statement conforms to the principles of disclosure of the National Council on Public Polls. The margin of error was +/- 5.7 percent.
Information on future polls will be available at Civitas Poll Lunches later this month and in September.
More information on the Civitas Institute is available at www.nccivitas.org, or contact Jim Tynen at (919) 834-2099.


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